Website of Urs-P. Twellmann
Wood in its manifold manifestation is the starting point for my objects, installations and interventions.
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Always in the centre of the creative process is my grappling with the material, exploring its character and possibilities and also the area of conflict between chaos and order; to this end I break wood, split it, saw it, analysis it and eventually bring it into new arrangements and coherencies.
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Artist Statement
Perceiving, observing, discovering, researching, developing, expanding and transforming – those are key words explaining my practice.
My main focus lies on transforming. In this process – where destruction and creation become as one – materials are collected and analysed, get bent, broken, split and cut to become new forms or are being arranged in a different context. Within this I am mainly interested in the area of conflict between chaos and order and that my work should always be a cooperation with the material at hand.
While I am interested in all materials, it’s wood in all its variations, conditions and forms I am most interested in. There is no inferior wood, just different starting points and possibilities to research.
As the material itself shapes a process, so does each location with its topography, its character and particularities as well as atmosphere, available tools and working conditions mould the final outcome.
A lot of the interventions, installation and objects are created at places where hardly anybody (or nobody at all), will ever see them. Some are just a short reflection of a moment. To communicate them nevertheless, the final work – and very often the creating process as well – are recorded photographically.
Dr. Gabrielle Obrist 2007 für das Lexikon des Schweizerischen Instituts für Kunstwissenschaft
“Biografie / Werk und Werkwürdigung” (vollständiger Text im pdf-Format)